To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Philip Brun, Utilities Director
Prepared By: Joy Eldredge, Deputy Utilities Director
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Contract for Water Supply from State Water Project
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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Authorize the Mayor to execute Amendment No. 16 to the Contract for Water Supply with Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District ("District") (City Agreement No. 1482; and District Agreement No. 1573); and determine that the potential environmental effects of the actions authorized by Amendment No. 16 were adequately analyzed by the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Water Supply Extension Project, certified by the California Department of Water Resources on November 13, 2018.
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DISCUSSION:
Since 1963 the Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District ("District") and the California State Department of Water Resources ("DWR") have been party to the State Water Supply Agreement "Agreement." The District represents the only three entities, also referred to as "Member Units", in Napa County that own water supply entitlements as part of the State Water Project: City of Napa, American Canyon and Calistoga. This contracting relationship was a common practice during the establishment of the State Water Project to limit the number of agreements for the statewide project. At the time the agreement was established there were five member units, however over the last five decades consolidation of water entitlements has occurred within Napa County leaving only the three aforementioned Cities holding water right entitlements. On behalf of the three Cities, the District is a member of the State Water Contractors Association, which is comprised of all 29 entities statewide that contract for State Water Project water.
The terms of the Contract between City of Napa (City) and the District are specified in District Agreement No. 1573 (City Agreement No. 1482), hereinafter "Contract", ent...
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